Exam 2 (Ch. 10, 14-17) Flashcards
Body image
One’s sense of the self and one’s body; a multidimensional construct that encompasses perceptions, thoughts, and feelings about the body.
Borderline personality disoder
Characterized by instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, affects, and control over impulses. Manifestations may include frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment; unstable, intense relationships that alternate between extremes of idealization and devaluation; repetitive self-mutilation or suicide threats; and inappropriate, intense, or uncontrolled anger.
Capitation
A uniform payment based on the number of people in the population being served. The health or mental health care provider, or group of providers, accepts responsibility to deliver the health or mental health services needed by all members of a specified group, and an agreed-on payment is made at regular intervals to the provider. The payment is made even if no services have been given, but the payment is no greater than the agreed-on amount if even more extensive services have been provided.
Codependency
A term referring to the effects that people who are dependent on alcohol or other substances have on those around them, including the attempts of those people to manage the chemically dependent person. The term implies that the family’s actions tend to perpetuate (enable) the person’s dependence.
Commitment
A legal process for admitting, usually involuntarily, a mentally ill person to a psychiatric treatment program. Although the legal definition and procedure vary from state to state, commitment usually requires a court or judicial procedure. Commitment may also be voluntary.
Compulsion
Repetitive ritualistic behavior or thoughts, such as frequent hand washing, arranging objects according to a rigid formula, counting, or repeating words silently. The purpose of these behaviors or thoughts is to prevent or reduce distress or to prevent some dreaded event or situation. The person feels driven to perform such actions in response to an obsession or according to rules that must be applied rigidly, even though the behaviors or thoughts are recognized to be excessive or unreasonable. Failure to perform these actions often generates anxiety.
Confabulation
The fabrication of false memories, perceptions, or beliefs about the self or the environment as a result of neurological or psychological dysfunction. It is difficult to distinguish confabulation from lies or delusions.
Confidentiality
The ethical principle that a physician may not reveal any information disclosed in the course of medical attendance.
Confrontation
A communication that deliberately pressures or invites another to self-examine some aspect of his or her behavior in which a discrepancy exists between self-reported and observed behavior. This technique is frequently used in the tx of alcoholism and chemical dependency.
Confusion
Disturbed orientation with respect to time, place, person, or situation.
Delusion
A false belief based on an incorrect inference about external reality, firmly sustained despite clear evidence to the contrary. The belief is not part of a cultural tradition such as an article of religious faith.
Therapeutic relationship
A trusting connection and rapport established between therapist and client through collaboration, communication, therapist empathy and mutual respect.
Therapeutic use of self
Being aware of oneself and of the patient and being able to control what one communicates.
3 stages of the therapeutic relationship
A) the development of rapport
B) the development of a working relationship
C) the maintenance of a working relationship through goal achievement
Therapeutic qualities
Empathy, sensitivity, respect, warmth, genuineness, self-disclosure, specificity, and immediacy
ALOR
Acronym for processing feedback: Ask Listen Observe Reflect
8 communication techniques
- Make initial contacts brief
- Choose words carefully
- Be comfortable with silence
- Encourage by minimal response
- Listen and observe
- Summarize and focus
- Ask for clarification
- Follow through on promises
Transference
Occurs when the patient unconsciously relates to the therapist as if that person were someone else, usually an important person in the patient’s life.
Countertransference
Occurs when the therapist unconsciously relates to the patient as if that person were someone else, usually an important person in the therapist’s life.
3 types of dependence
- detrimental
- constructive
- self-dependence
Detrimental dependence
Excessive dependence by the patient on the health professional.
Constructive dependence
Productive. Pt. relies on the health professional to provide something that the pt. cannot manage.
Self-dependence
Ability to depend on oneself, to identify and solve one’s own problems. Synonymous with independence.
Stigma
Social disapproval
Issues that arise in therapeutic relationships
- transference and countertransference
- dependence
- stigma
- helplessness, anger, and depression
- sexual feelings
- fear and revulsion
Obligations of OT staff toward patients
- Patient-centered focus
- Goal-oriented treatment
- Patient’s rights
- Confidentiality
- Patient welfare
- Continuing education
- Standard of care
7 Guiding Principles of the OT Code of Ethics
- Beneficence
- Nonmaleficence
- Autonomy, confidentiality
- Duty
- Procedural justice
- Veracity
- Fidelity
5 important points of the OTPF process
- the process is dynamic and evolving
- context is embedded in our understanding of intervention
- clients are individuals, whether they receive services as individuals or as members of groups or populations
- the client must be an active participant (client-centered process)
- the outcome is engagement in occupation
8 stages in the OT process
- referral
- screening
- evaluation
- intervention planning
- intervention implementation
- intervention review
- transition planning
- discontinuation of services
Referral
Request for services
Screening
Purpose is to determine whether a person needs OT evaluation or intervention.
Evaluation
Purpose is to find out enough about the person to determine the direction of intervention.
Intervention planning
Entails identifying the client’s problems, choosing outcomes, and selecting reasonable goals and methods to achieve them.
Intervention implementation
The actual performance of the methods and activities outlined in the intervention plan.
Intervention review
Process for determining the effectiveness of the plan.
Transition planning
Stage in which the next care setting is identified and arrangements are made.
Discontinuation of services
Final step in the intervention process. Opportunity for the client and OT staff to review what has transpired over the course of the intervention process.
Holistic perspective and dynamic process of OT (3 key goals)
OT intervention is always:
- client centered
- occupation centered
- outcome oriented
Focus of clinical inquery
First question: What is the patient’s status?
Second question: What are the available options?
Third question: What ought to be done?
Types of reasoning
- procedural
- interactive
- conditioned
- narrative
- pragmatic
Procedural reasoning
Applies to the disability and the treatment options.
Interactive reasoning
Applies to understanding and relating to the patient as an individual.
Conditioned reasoning
Includes the larger context, the “what if” brainstorming of events that might change the current conditions and the need for the patient to participate.
Narrative reasoning
Involves telling a story that will capture interest and spark confidence in the patient.
Pragmatic reasoning
Getting things done, thinking through problems that might arise and finding efficient strategies to take care of the details.
Evidence-based practice
The reasoned and judicious use of the best evidence to select interventions to meet specific clinical needs.
Levels of evidence
- meta-analyses and systematic reviews
- randomized control trial (RCT)
- research studies that do not meet the standard of RCT
- expert opinion
Assessment
Used to identify specific tests, instruments, interviews, and other measures used in evaluation.
Asset
Useful, adaptive behavior, one that helps the client get what they need and carry out daily life activities.
Deficit
Behavior that interferes with meeting the client’s needs and doing the things they need and want to do.